Bayard

“Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking. ”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

“The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.”
― E. M. Cioran

“...you don't really become a finer person just by reading lots of books.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro

“You're the sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything. There are plenty, younger than you or less young, who live in the expectation of extraordinary experiences: from books, from people, from journeys, from events, from what tomorrow has in store. But not you. You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler